PERS 
town. In ancient times, the principal approach to the 
abbey was through Lice-ftreet, a Saxon appellation de¬ 
rived from the corpfes for interment being carried along 
that ftreet. A fmall part of the gateway, on the north 
fide, is Hill in exiftence; near it was the chapel of St. Ed- 
burga, the eighth daughter of king Edward the Elder, 
■who reigned about the year 900. Perlhore has two 
churches at prefent: that of the Holy Crofs, above men¬ 
tioned 5 and All Saints, which is fmall, but kept in neat 
order, and has a fquare tower. The parilh is extenfive, 
and contains feveral manors and chapelries. The town 
is principally fituated in one ftreet, about three-quarters 
of a mile in length, and has many refpeflable houfes. 
It formerly fent members to parliament ; but none 
have been returned fince the 23d year of Edward I. Its 
chief manufacture is for ftockings. Market-day, Thurf- 
day ; fairs, Eafter Tuefday, June z6, firft Monday in Au- 
guft, and the Tuefday before the ift of November. Ac¬ 
cording to the cenfus of 1811, the number of houfes was 
408, containing 1910 inhabitants. 
In the neighbourhood of the town are feveral villages 
of minor importance.—Deft'ord is a chapelry to Perfhore, 
eight miles in circuit; wherein are fome fait fprings. 
Near it is Coppins-court, which formerly had a magnifi¬ 
cent edifice, now razed.—Strenfham is fouth-weft of Per¬ 
fhore, not far from the influx of the Avon into the Severn. 
Here is an hofpital for fix poor widows, and a charity- 
PER 
-PER'SIA, a moft ancient and celebrated empire of Alia, 
the limits of which have been various at different periods. 
Its ancient name was Elam, or Elymais; and its inhabi¬ 
tants were denominated Elamites, as the defcendants of 
Elam, the fon of Shem; and under this appellation they 
formed, about the time of Abraham, in the 18th or 19th 
century B. C. a powerful ftate. The name of Perfia is 
derived from the oriental term Pares, which, originating 
with the province Pars or Fars, at length comprehen¬ 
ded the whole mighty empire. It has been alfo feme- 
times called Avhemenia, from the name of Achemenes, 
one of its ancient kings; but more commonly by the na¬ 
tives, and alfo the more in telligent Muflul mans, iRANjimder 
which denomination were included all the wide regions 
to the fouth and w>eft of the Oxus or Gihon ; and the 
countries beyond that river fubjeft to Perfia were, in an¬ 
cient times, denominated Annan. 
Perfia extended, according to the geography of Pto¬ 
lemy, between Media towards the north, and the Sinus 
Perficus, or Perfian Gulf, on the fouth ; it was feparated 
from Babylonia by Sufiana; and on the weft was Cara- 
mania. In fettling the largeft boundaries between which 
it lies, fir William Jones direfis us to begin with the 
fource of the Euphrates, and thence defeend to its mouth 
in the Perfian Gulf, including in our line fome confide- 
rable diftridts and towns on both fides the river; then 
eoafting Perfia, properly fo named, and other Iranian pro¬ 
vinces, we come to the delta of the Sindhu, or Indus; 
whence afeending to the mountains of Caftigar, we difeo- 
ver its fountains, and thofe of the laihun, down which 
we are conducted to the Cafpian, which formerly perhaps 
it entered, though it lofes itfelf now in the fands and 
lakes of Khwarezm; we next are led from the fea of Kho- 
zar, by the banks of the Cur, or Cyrus, and along the 
Caucafian ridges, to the (hore of the Euxine, and thence, 
by the feveral Grecian feas, to the point whence w'e took 
our departure, at no confiderable diftance from the Me¬ 
diterranean. We cannot but include the Lower Alia 
within this outline, becaufe it was unqueftionably a part 
of the Perfian, if not of the old Aflyrian, empire. Thus, 
fays our author, we may look on Iran as the nobleft 
ifland, (for (o the Greeks and the Arabs would have called 
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fchool. This parifti contains 2000 acres; and was the 
birth place of Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras. The 
church has feveral fine monuments of the Ruflel family. 
—Wol borough or Wad borough, is three miles north- 
weft of Perihore, where the abbots of that monaftery had 
a park.—Walcot is about two miles north-eaft.—Stow- 
ton is to the north-w'eft.—Breedon is a healthy pleafant 
village near Perihore ; the parilh, dedicated to St. Giles, 
contains three chapelries, viz. Norton, Mitton, and Cutf- 
dean ; and three hamlets, viz. Weftmancot, Kelmelham, 
and Hardwick ; it is one of the moft valuable reflories in 
the diocefe of Worcefter. Here was formerly a monaftery. 
The porch and weft end of the church are Saxon edi¬ 
fices, faid to have been built by the grandfather of 
King Offa. To the north-eaft of it is a hill, on which is 
a Roman encampment, with a double ditch ; and it boafts 
one of the fined profpefls in the county; on the top is a 
lofty fummer-houfe, from which may be viewed the ci¬ 
ties of Worcefter and Gloucefter; Cheltenham, &c.—At 
Wycton, near Wych, according to Tanner, a priory of 
canons of the order of St. Auguftine was founded by Pe¬ 
ter de Corbizon, alias Studley, in the parilh-church of 
St. Peter, about the latter end of the reign of Henry I. 
It was afterwards removed to Studley in Warwicklhire ; 
and, excepting the parilh-church, no traces of any eccle- 
fiaftical eftablilhment remain. Beauties of England and 
Wales, vol. xv. Wilkes's Britijh DireBory, vol. v. 
S I Ao 
it,) or at lead the nobleft peninfula, on this habitable globe. 
The limits afligned by nature to Perfia, and which natu¬ 
rally fubfifted in the reign of Artaxerxes, the founder of 
the houfe of Saflan, are the Sea of Oman, or Perfian Guif, 
and Indian Ocean, to the fouth ; the Indus and Oxus, to 
the eaft and north-eaft; the Cafpian Sea, and Mount 
Caucafus, to the north; and the rivers Tigris and Eu¬ 
phrates to the weft; which boundaries comprehend 
many extenfive provinces, and feveral kingdoms. 
The prefent extent of Perfia, according to the ftatement 
of Pinkerton, is as follows. From the mountains and de- 
ferts, which, with the river Araba, conftitute the eaftern 
frontier to'wards Hindooltan, Perfia extends more than 
1200 miles in length, to the weftern mountains of Elwend, 
and other limits of Afiatic Turkey. From fouth to 
north, from the deferts of the Indian Sea, in all ages left 
to the Ifthyopbagi, or wild tribes of Arabs who live on 
fifh, to the other deferts near the fea of Aral, are about 
1000 Britilh miles. The dominion of the prefent king 
is reftrifted to the provinces of Fars and Irak, Lar, Chu- 
fiftan, part of Curdiftan, Adjerbijan, Ghilan, Mazande- 
ram, the weftern parts of Choralan, with the cities of 
Melhed, Nifnapour, and Turfnilh, and the weftern divi- 
fion of Kerman, including the capital of that province. 
By a treaty with Ruflia, figned Off. iz, 1813, Perfia ceded 
to Ruflia the government of Karabag, Gannlhin, Schehin, 
Schirwan, Derbent, Kubin, Baka, Talifchin, and the 
whole of Dagluftan 5 and renounced all claims to Georgia, 
with the province of Shuragil upon Imaretta, Guria, 
Mingrelia, and Abelcaife. By this treaty, the line of 
boundaries between the two empires commences from the 
plain of Adineh Bazar, and runs direft though the Sahara, 
or Defert of Moghan, to the weft of Yediboluk' on the 
river Araxes, and then on the uppermoft northern bank 
of that river, until its junction at the Kapanekchai, at 
the back of the hill of Megri. From the right bank of 
the Kapanek chai, the boundaries of Karabag and 
Nakhjuwan are marked by a line drawn on the fummits 
of the mountains of Pembeg and Aligez. The line then 
continues from the top of the Pembek mountains to the 
angle of the boundary of Shuragil, then over the fnowy 
mountains, and, puffing through Aked, runs along the 
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